Unless you, dear reader, are a web-scraping software bot quietly pulling this text into a data-hungry LLM, you’re probably a human. And though you’ve likely never seen me in person, you have good ...

Few scientific ideas have leapt from philosophy seminars to dinner-table debates as quickly as the claim that our universe might be an artificial construct. The simulation hypothesis promises a ...

As I mention often on this blog, I have a great interest in the universe—astrophysics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, all that stuff. With that, I’m no expert in any of it. I just enjoy reading and ...